Eccentric (Niall Horan)

Chapter 33

I brake away my gaze from Niall's and look up at Louis. He notices me Niall's appearance across the room and gives me a worried look. I shake my head and glance at Niall to have Louis guide us to place our order.

Louis talks with the lady on the other side of the counter while I look back over to Niall. He hasn't moved his place, and he keeps staring back at me. The girl finally notices she doesn't have Niall's attention, she follows his gaze and meets mine. She's the same girl I found Niall with at the store.

"Century" I look at Louis who is staring intently back at me. "What do you want?" He asks.

"Whatever is fine" I reply looking back at Niall. His face has no emotion, and his body muscles have tensed under my stare.

"Come on" I hear Louis say as he grabs my arm gently and pulls me to a table to wait. I haven't broken my gaze, the two keep staring at me but my focus is on Niall.

"Hey" Louis waves his hand in front of my face grabbing my attention. "You okay?" I know exactly what he's asking about. This must be the usual. Niall sleeps with girls Louis helps them recover and then later on you see Niall with someone else ready to do the same thing.

"Yeah I'm fine" I look down at my hands, not wanting to look at him again.

"Can I ask you something?" Louis asks. The last time he asked me something dealing with Niall he made me spill on what happened.

I nod my head at Louis, requesting for him to go on. "Do you like him?"

My eyes snap back to Louis'. My eyebrows are narrowing on him. Do I like him? After everything Niall has done, how does Louis expect me to like him?

"Like? no" I shake my head at the silliness. At this point I can practically already feel Niall's eyes on me.

"No I mean like, do you have feelings for him?" Feelings. I felt so many feelings last night, but I also felt a lot if feelings when he drove me home on Monday, and I definitely felt some feelings when I first met him. When he snapped at me about my mother.

I frown.

"What makes you think that?" I ask.

"I saw the way you looked at him, you let go of my hand even though he's with someone else. For god sakes I practically saw your heart stop beating when you laid eyes on that girl" I think. How could he notice such things? Not even myself, that's me noticed.

"Look, look at me" I haven't even realized I've been looking at Niall. "I can tell that you like him, and I can tell you are still debating whether or not you do like him or not, or if you have more than feelings for him" I take a minute for Louis' words to sink in. Never thought about it that way. I never even thought about having feelings for him. Do I? Can I?

"I don't know what to think" I say with all honesty.

"Don't think just say" A number gets called out and when I look at Niall he's back to leaning against the wall, but he's still staring back at me. The girl nearing him nudges him but he doesn't budge. She groans, walks up to grab the food and shoves it Niall's chest.

I sigh looking at Louis. Giving him a pleading look.

Another number is called and Louis gets up to retrieve our bag. He gives me a hand and I take it as we walk towards the door, trying my best to not look at Niall. We reach the car, glad we made it when I hear Niall's voice.

"Louis" The two of us turn around. he has his own bag in his hand and the girl is helplessly following behind him.

"Hey man! Where'd you run off to this morning" Louis glances at me then at Niall. I can't tell he just wants me to get in the car while he discusses with Niall.